Huh?

Who's Your Daddy?

Chu Qingzhou froze when she heard the name.

So the crude joke she had overheard outside Gu Sheng's office that day had been them discussing the game's title...

This name...

Chu Qingzhou frowned.

It really was bizarre enough.

After carefully reviewing the data she had just recorded, Chu Qingzhou raised a hand.

"Sorry to interrupt, Director Gu, but is there any room to adjust this game's price?"

Chu Qingzhou felt the price was a little too low.

Regardless of the game's quality.

Just looking at the investment alone, Chu Qingzhou felt it was inappropriate.

This investment was ten times that of Mario Bros.!

By rights, its price should have been somewhere between fifteen and twenty yuan per copy.

Five yuan was simply too little.

That meant they would need to sell at least twenty thousand copies just to barely recoup their costs.

Hearing this, Gu Sheng shrugged, looking somewhat helpless as he turned to Little Nezha. "This price..."

"I set this price, Secretary Chu."

Shen Miaomiao nodded and looked at Chu Qingzhou.

"I have faith in Director Gu's work."

My ass!

Shen Miaomiao roared inwardly!

Did she think I wanted to price it this low?!

Wasn't it because the system had restricted this brilliant lady's talent?!

After the disaster that had been Mario Bros., Shen Miaomiao had reflected deeply.

She had thoroughly analyzed why Mario Bros. had turned a profit and carefully reflected on her own shortcomings.

In the end, Shen Miaomiao decided to take an unconventional approach and solve the problem of the game being able to sell at its root!

She had planned to price the game at ten thousand yuan!

There were plenty of suckers in the world, but there were very, very few who would casually spend ten thousand yuan on a pile of crap.

Shen Miaomiao had thought it through perfectly.

But the system was no fool.

It immediately warned her that such behavior was a violation and stipulated that the game's price had to fall within a reasonable range.

For Who's Your Daddy, the system's suggested price range was around twenty-five yuan.

The system's reasonable restrictions left Shen Miaomiao depressed, but there was nothing she could do about it.

Then she had an idea and went in the opposite direction.

If it wouldn't let her set the price high, then she would push it as low as possible.

That way, even if some suckers fell for it, they would not recoup the costs anytime soon.

"...I know what I'm doing when it comes to the price."

Shen Miaomiao waved a hand.

"I believe that a work from Director Gu's hands definitely won't disappoint us."

As she spoke, Shen Miaomiao raised her hand, signaling that Gu Sheng could begin the game demonstration.

Gu Sheng nodded, sat down, and exchanged a glance with Lu Bian beside him. They nodded to each other.

The two of them were in charge of the demonstration today.

The meeting room fell silent.

Shen Miaomiao watched the projected screen with great interest.

Chu Qingzhou also held her breath, wanting to see just what kind of presentation this game, made at a cost of one hundred thousand yuan, could deliver.

Very soon!

As a jaunty tune began to play, the game appeared on the projector screen.

There it was!

Against a blue dynamic background, cribs, tricycles, beer, beverages, and rat poison scrolled endlessly past.

Near the top was the game's title, scrawled in crude handwriting—"Who's Your Daddy."

And beneath the title stood a... bizarre humanoid wearing an orange shirt and blue jeans?

Though it was inappropriate to describe a game character that way, Chu Qingzhou truly did not want to use the word "human" for this game's father character.

Because this damned model was way too abstract!

Its round head was topped with an oval lump of hair, and its two eyes were round too, as if they were about to clip through the model. Its gaze radiated a mind-blowing air of idiocy!

Its limbs had no joints whatsoever, so crudely made that they looked like four strands of ramen stuck onto its torso!

Then there was the other baby character at this bizarre humanoid's feet!

The model was not even as tall as an ordinary person's calf, with severely distorted proportions!

Its smooth braised-egg-like head bore facial textures that were crude beyond belief.

The diaper seemed fused to its body, twisting and warping constantly as the baby crawled, even clipping straight through the model right in front of them!

This was what they had made with a hundred thousand yuan?!

Chu Qingzhou was beyond furious!

Even fury was no longer enough to describe how she felt at that moment.

Perhaps shock and bewilderment better suited her current emotions.

It was like being the owner of a small convenience store, one day accidentally receiving counterfeit bills from three suckers, only to discover that the fake money had been drawn by these three idiots with ballpoint pens.

Call the police!!!

These three bastards were running a scam!!!

Yes!

An investment of one hundred thousand yuan was indeed a little low for a mature game.

But this thing... was way too immature!

She had actually thought just now that this game's launch price was too low!

Now, it seemed that once this thing released, they would be lucky if players did not demand compensation for emotional distress!

And this was only the game's opening screen!

What would it be like after entering the game?!

Chu Qingzhou did not even dare imagine what kind of disaster it would be.

"...Huh?"

Chu Qingzhou was speechless.

She genuinely could not find an angle from which to begin. She could only gape and let out a "Huh?" laden with a thousand unspoken words and tangled emotions.

Turning to Shen Miaomiao, Chu Qingzhou wanted to signal with her eyes for her boss to call the police and bring this fraud ring to justice.

But then she discovered that at this moment!

Her boss, Shen Miaomiao, was staring at the game screen as though she had been put under a spell, her eyes shining brightly!

Woohoo!

We're taking off!

Shen Miaomiao felt like a fine horse galloping freely across the grasslands, racing onward with the wind in her mane!

You three really were professionals at this!

These models! These character designs! These visuals!

Good lord!

At that moment, Shen Miaomiao truly wanted to ask the three geniuses across from her: forget five yuan—would you buy this piece of junk even if it only cost one yuan?

Shen Miaomiao certainly would not buy it. She did not want to turn herself into an idiot just to save one yuan.

"Good!!!"

After days of intensive training, Shen Miaomiao had now become exceptionally skilled at insincere praise.

"This character art style truly is... uniquely gifted!"

She genuinely could not think of any other way to describe it.

"As far as I know, no one in today's game market has dared to use this kind of art style to challenge players and challenge the market!"

"But you did it!"

Shen Miaomiao nodded repeatedly in praise.

"Director Gu's pioneering spirit is worthy of our study!"

Hearing Shen Miaomiao's words, the three men across from her looked at one another.

Lu Bian, seated beside Gu Sheng, nudged him with an elbow and lowered his voice.

"...Old Gu, is Little Nezha mocking us?"

"I don't know either..."

Gu Sheng answered quietly.

"But with her personality, she probably wouldn't insult people in such a roundabout way..."

"Then is she... praising us???"

Da Jiang asked in a hushed, astonished voice.

"Brother Sheng, is our boss an idiot..."

After a brief round of whispers, Gu Sheng pondered for a moment. "Uh—then, CEO Shen, what do you think of our demonstration?"

"Oh, no need for a demonstration."

Shen Miaomiao was delighted and waved her hand.

With this game screen right in front of them, was there any need for a demonstration?

After players bought the game, they would be lucky if no one reported them for illegal fundraising!

Demonstrations were no longer important.

With this game, it would never even make it as far as entering the game.

They could just wait for every sale to become a refund.

As for me!

Hehehe!

Thinking this!

Shen Miaomiao waved her little hand!

"I declare it! This game has been approved! Put it up for sale tomorrow!"

Ding!

The moment her words fell!

Shen Miaomiao heard that exhilarating system notification sound in her mind!

Rebate System

Project: Who's Your Daddy

Current Investment Amount: 100,000 yuan

Estimated Rebate Amount: 1,000,000 yuan

Time Remaining Until Settlement: 6 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds (Awaiting activation)